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hpr2802 :: Mid-life (?) assessment

by: clacke

Publication date: 2019-04-30

Usage: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0

Topics: life, kids, work, medicine, future

Contributor: HackerPublicRadio

Language: English

Summary: It seems life goes faster and faster and then turns around and goes slower and slower
Source: http://hackerpublicradio.org/eps.php?id=2802
Original audio: http://archive.org/download/hpr2802/hpr2802_source.flac

At 40, I’m at the middle of the mean life expectancy in most parts of the world. What’s happened so far, and where do I go from here?

I look at my life’s past in increasingly smaller chunks of years, and then at my life’s future in increasingly larger chunks of years, and speculate about those 80 years — or perhaps many more? — of expected lifetime.

I’m saying mostly the things I wrote at https://loadaverage.org/conversation/10689347 but with some small updates from the last 9 months.